Re: [Bug-XBoard] xboard without a mouse

From:

Arun Persaud

Subject:

Re: [Bug-XBoard] xboard without a mouse

Date:

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:07:01 -0700

User-agent:

Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227)

Michael Faber wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to use xboard without a mouse just with a keyboard.
> Is that possible in any way?
> would be great. thans in advance
I don't know if it possible at the moment, but if not, I'll look into
how to add this... I guess something like left-right, up-down and
enter/space to select squares. I would like to add shortcuts to drop
pieces for bughouse too... e.g. select square and hit "p" to drop a
pawn... or if you use your mouse, drop the piece on the square where the
mouse is.
Unfortunately I don't have that much time at the moment, so if this
feature is not available and you don't want to code it yourself, you
might have to wait a while :)
ARUN